Lilylovedme.
Lily lovedme.
She started to worry her bottom lip, likely mistaking my silence for something other than pure awe and adoration of the woman in front of me.
“Lily,” I rasped with a laugh. “I am so in love with you. How could I not be? You are the most incredible woman I’ve ever met. From the moment we met, I was in awe of your strength, your confidence, your determination, your beauty.” I cupped her face, running the pad of my thumb over her cheek. “I didn’t expect it, but there was no point in fighting it.” I exhaled. “God, Lily, I love you so fucking much, and it feels so good to say that out loud.” I paused, my lips spreading into a smile. “You want to know what love feels like for me?”
She nodded, eyes dazed as she looked up at me.
“It feels like sunshine. It’s the feeling I get when you smile at me, when you laugh at something I say. It’s the feeling of falling asleep with you in my arms, knowing that I get to see you first thing when I wake up. It’s the feeling of finding you in a room and locking eyes.”
“Oh, Gabe,” she said softly, resting her hand on the back of my neck. “There are so many things I love about you. I love your heart, how much you care. I love how when you do something you give it your all. I love how you support me, how thoughtful you are. And I love how you’ve given Golden Falls a chance, how you’ve reconnected with Hal. You told me once that it’s okay to ask for help, how I don’t have to do things alone. Well, I want to tell you that I want to be in your corner. I want to be the one to help you when you need it, to support you, because that’s whatyou’ve done for me. I don’t want to go back to life without you. Gabe Nelson, I want all your midnights, too. Every single one.”
“They’re yours, Lily. Every single one,” I repeated, lifting her and sitting her on the kitchen counter. Her legs instinctively spread, and I eagerly stepped between them.
Her hands ran down my chest. “What else is mine?” she asked breathlessly, licking her lips. She looped her fingers in my belt loops and pulled me closer, her legs wrapping around my hips.
I let out a husky laugh, my palms braced on either side of her on the cool marble counter. “Whatever you want. Name it, and it’s yours.” Everything was hers, and I would do anything for her.
“I want”—she bit down on her bottom lip to hide her smile—“every inch of you.”
I hummed, my cock twitching in my pants at her words. “You sure you can handle every inch?”
“I’ve done a pretty good job so far, but…why don’t we find out?”
46
LILY
Within moments,Gabe lifted me off the counter and carried me to his bedroom. He tossed me on his bed with ease, and I sank into his soft mattress and covers. I watched with parted lips as he started to undo the buttons on his dress shirt. Getting impatient, he pulled the shirt off, the buttons popping off and skittering on the hardwood floor.
The action only made me crave him more. I was aching for him, how it felt to be underneath his weight as he touched and explored my body. Once Gabe’s shirt was off, the rest of our clothes were torn off, too.
He spread my legs, a growl leaving him. He dipped his head, pressing a trail of hungry kisses along my leg, inner thigh, all the way to my center, where he swiped his tongue.
“Gabe!” I cried, my legs already trembling.
“I love how wet you get for me. I love that I’m the only one who’s going to touch you from now on. To get to see you like this.”
My hands found his hair, and I gripped and tugged as my back arched off the mattress. Gabe’s hand reached up, largepalm splaying against my stomach to keep me steady while his mouth sucked, teased, and tasted.
I loved that he was mine, and I would never get tired of saying that. A part of me still found it hard to believe how we’d gotten here, but I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Because the way things unfolded brought me to Gabe.
My hands ached with the need to explore his body. I gripped his shoulders and pulled him to me, crashing his lips to mine. I gently stroked my tongue against his before sucking his bottom lip, tasting myself on him.
He groaned, his grip on my hip tightening as he pushed inside me, not wasting any time in moving his hips.
“And I love that I’m the only one who gets to touch you. Who gets to feel you. Fantasize about you.” I let out a gasp, my breath hitching low in my throat.
“Only you, Sunshine,” he murmured, breath hot against mine. “You’ll have to tell me more about these fantasies, though. I’m very curious.”
I grinned lazily against him. With my legs wrapped around his hips, I dug my heels into his lower back, wanting more, wanting him deeper. Gabe eagerly complied.
“I’m…I’m close,” I warned with another moan among the rhythmic motion of his hips and the headboard knocking against the wall.
“Good girl. Come for me, Lily. Let’s hear those pretty moans.” Gabe used the pad of his thumb to pull down my bottom lip and tip my head down. “And eyes open. I want you to watch how well you take my cock as you fall apart.”
“Oh, fuck!” I did as he said and watched as his hips slammed against mine, our bodies shaking and rattling the bed even further. I gripped the sheets, needing something to anchor me as my vision blurred and pleasure flooded my body as we both finished.
